jazzfest has come and gone. ultimately, this past year hasn't been worthless, which is encouraging. i guess it takes a women's game to gage.

i'm a better deep. yelena even asked me what my vertical was at one point. i didn't go deep that often (still prefer the in cut), but i picked up a couple of trashes throws (literally two), and caught a couple of misthrows to me.

my forehand has also improved (finally!). i threw two deeps, both for completions (more kudos to receivers than anything on my side). one was a high floaty thing that came in at an angle. thank god nancy can read well. as i'm catching on an in cut, i see tucker poaching out of the corner of my eye, i know that nancy has been covering tucker all game, and i hear her yelling for the deep. i turn and jack it immediately without looking. as soon as the disc leaves my hand, i'm thinking, oh shit, that's not pretty. but i'm pretty proud of the decision making process. the other one was a hail mary from the sideline after we scored 4 times and got it recalled 4 times for contested fastcount/stalls. i was tired. i saw cordy cutting up the sideline, i knew there were other ppl deeper than she was, i very much doubted she'd catch it, i didn't give a damn. i threw it anyways. i was right, she didn't catch it, but mary saved me. thank you mary.

the first day was really frustrating. i got tired really easily. at one point, i thought i was having heart palpitations. my hands got cold and clammy. i considered faking an injury, but then i saw doris panting in the stack, panting thru her cut, panting thru her clear, and i felt like a wuss. i'm not used to cutting continuously anymore--a product of the coed game where i make a cut, throw the continue, and can never catch up with the flow of play again. i also forgot how to set up my cuts against good defense. luckily, i remembered before sunday. it's fun to get open at will and have the men's sideline OOOHing everytime you trick your girl. very fun.

oh, and my backhand has degenerated. i'm still pretty good at d. i'm surprised that meryl was having trouble with girls that i was covering easily. but maybe that's cuz all they do is squirrel before cutting in.